Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- death
- the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
- heat of condensation
- heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid
- endogeny
- a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth
- power
- energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
- organic phenomenon
- (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals
- electrical line of force
- a line of force in an electrical field
- magnetomotive force
- the force that produces magnetic flux
- sky wave
- a radio wave that is reflected back to earth by the ionosphere or a communications satellite; permits transmission around the curve of the earth's surface
- wave front
- all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates
- Coriolis force
- (physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a rotating frame of reference Newton's second law of motion can be made to apply if in addition to the real forces acting on a body a Coriolis force and a centrifugal force are introduced
- cathode ray
- a beam of electrons emitted by the cathode of an electrical discharge tube
- resonance
- a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system
- head
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- storm
- a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- sea breeze
- a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime)
- laminar flow
- nonturbulent streamline flow in parallel layers (laminae)
- breath
- a slight movement of the air
- dimorphism
- (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms
- moonbeam
- a ray of moonlight
- variation
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
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